Sidewalk Movie Fest: List, summaries, times of films

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama --- Here is an alphabetical list of the narrative and documentary features showing at the 13th annual Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival. The festival begins tonight and continues through Sunday at eight venues in downtown Birmingham. For more extensive plot synopses -- as well as details on the short films playing Sidewalk -- go to the festival website at www.sidewalkfest.com.

NARRATIVE FEATURES

AMERICAN DECAFDirector: Heidi Van LierA gaggle of characters bumbles through a coffee-less day in the San Fernando Valley. (80 mins.)10:15 a.m. Saturday, RMTC Cabaret Theatre

AUTOEROTICDirectors: Adam Wingard and Joe SwanbergThis anthology comedy weaves together several awkward and funny tales that all take place in Chicago. (72 mins.)10 p.m. Saturday, Alabama Theatre Loft

THE BAD PENNYDirector: Todd BellancaWhile traveling in Bangkok, a mysterious stranger discovers a once-promising boxer who is working in a bar while hiding out after getting revenge on the bookie who swindled him. (93 mins.)10:10 p.m. Saturday, Hill Event Center

A BAG OF HAMMERSDirector: Brian CranoTwo longtime friends who steal cars and plot scams to finance their carefree lifestyles have to adjust their priorities when a ruffian kid and his struggling mom move in next door. (87 mins.)12:45 p.m. Saturday, Carver Theatre

DAVIDDirector: Joel FendelmanIn Brooklyn, an 11-year-old Muslim boy, whose stern dad won't allow him to hang out with kids his age, forms a close bond with his peers at a Hebrew school -- only they don't know he isn't Jewish. (80 mins.)4:15 p.m. Saturday, McWane Rushton Theatre

THE DISH AND THE SPOONDirector: Alison BagnallA woman vows to track down and get even with the childhood friend who had an affair with her husband but instead finds herself in the role of reluctant baby-sitter to a stranded 19-year-old British boy. (82 mins.)12:35 p.m. Sunday, RMTC Cabaret Theatre

ELEANOR'S SECRETDirector: Dominique MonferyAfter his Aunt Eleanor leaves him her renowned book collection, a 7-year-old boy discovers that the characters in the books are able to come to life. (80 mins.)12:10 p.m. Sunday, McWane Rushton Theatre

FORT McCOYDirector: Kate Connor and Michael WorthThe story of a family's experience living next to a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp during WWII. (101 mins.)4:10 p.m. Sunday, McWane Rushton Theatre

THE GOONIESDirector: Richard DonnerA group of kids embarks on a wild adventure after finding a pirate treasure map. (114 mins.)8:45 p.m. Saturday, Outdoor Screen at Sidewalk CenterGREENDirector: Sophia TakalAn intimate friendship between two women dissolves as they are drawn into an irrational, destructive spiral of jealousy and paranoid fantasy. (75 mins.)6:25 p.m. Sunday, Alabama Theatre Loft

HOMECOMINGDirector: Sean HackettDuring her last month home on leave from Afghanistan, a female soldier and her two best friends attempt to make the best of her remaining time in their hometown of Celebration, Fla. (89 mins.)10:25 a.m. Sunday, Alabama Power Auditorium

THE INNKEEPERSDirector: Ti WestTwo slacker employees of a soon-to-be-closed hotel get more than they bargained for when they set out to prove that the hotel is as haunted as its reputation. (100 mins.)8 tonight, Alabama Theatre

KIDNAPPEDDirector: Miguel Angel VivasIn Madrid, a wealthy husband and wife and their teenage daughter move into a sprawling house, but their first night of settling in is interrupted when three masked men burst into the house and terrorize them.10:10 p.m. Saturday, Carver Theatre

MIA AND THE MIGOODirector: Jaques-Remy GirerdA girl named Mia embarks on a journey in search of her father, who is trapped in a job-related construction cave-in. (91 mins.)12:15 p.m. Saturday, McWane Rushton Theatre

MISSING PIECES(Alabama film)Director: Kenton BartlettA lonely man with a broken heart drugs and kidnaps two strangers in the hopes they will fall in love. (117 mins.)12:15 p.m. Saturday, Hill Event CenterPRAIRIE LOVE(Alabama film)Director: Dusty BiasA mysterious vagrant patrols the deserted roads of the winter plains, living out of his car and off the land, but when he discovers a nearly frozen local with a pen-pal girlfriend, he sees an opportunity to change his lonely existence. (90 mins.)7:35 p.m. Sunday, Carver Theatre

THE ROBBER

Director: Benjamin HeisenbergWhile serving a six-year sentence, a prisoner devotes himself to endurance training, and after he is released, he applies his running prowess to winning marathons and robbing banks. (97 mins.)7:45 p.m. Saturday, Alabama Theatre

SAHKANAGADirector: John Henry SummerourA teenager in rural Georgia stumbles upon a gruesome discovery in the woods, and his life comes unraveled. (80 mins.)12:35 p.m. Sunday, Alabama Power Auditorium

SEPTIENDirector: Michael TullyA reclusive sports hustler returns home to his family farm after years of absence to reunite with his two eccentric, unhinged and emotionally damaged brothers. (80 mins.)8:25 p.m. Sunday, Hill Event Center

SILVER TONGUESDirector: Simon ArthurTwo lovers don different personas as they drive from town to town, deceiving and destroying the lives of the people in their path. (84 mins.)5:25 p.m. Sunday, RMTC Cabaret Theatre

SMALL POND

Director: Josh SlatesThis slacker comedy centers on a small-town girl who works the bare minimum number of hours possible at the local pizza parlor. (76 mins.)5 p.m. Sunday, Alabama Power Auditorium

STAND(Alabama film)Director: T. BlackA Christian rap group tries to deal with success after they start getting major radio play and a big label offers them a lucrative deal. (97 mins.)10:15 a.m. Saturday, Alabama Power Auditorium

TREATMENTDirectors: Sean Nelson and Steven SchardtA slacker who has dreamed of becoming a famous filmmaker gets a lucky break when he has a chance encounter with a wasted A-list movie star. (84 mins.)6:35 p.m. Saturday, Alabama Power Auditorium

WITHOUTDirector: Mark JacksonOn an isolated island, a woman takes a monthlong job as a house-sitter and caretaker for an elderly man in a catatonic state. (88 mins.)2:40 p.m. Saturday, Alabama Theatre Loft

WUSSDirector: Clay LifordAfter he is severely beaten by his students, a high-school teacher plots his revenge. (96 mins.)7:15 p.m. Sunday, Alabama Power Auditorium

DOCUMENTARY FEATURES

ARMADILLODirector: Janus Metz PedersonThis film gets in the middle of the battle as Danish soldiers stationed at a base in southern Afghanistan come under attack. (105 mins.)12:50 p.m. Saturday, Alabama Theatre

BEATBOXING: THE FIFTH ELEMENT OF HIP HOPDirector: Klaus SchneyderA comprehensive look at the musical art form of beatboxing -- from its emergence in hip-hop culture to its heyday in the 1980s to its move underground to its revival in the 1990s. (55 mins.)4:50 p.m. Sunday, Alabama Theatre Loft

DRAGONSLAYERDirector: Tristan PattersonThe film captures former pro-skater Josh "Screech" Sandoval at a crossroads, facing decisions about his profession and lifestyle, as well as confronting outside pressures to conform. (74 mins.)3:20 p.m. Saturday, Alabama Theatre

GUILTY PLEASURESDirector: Julie MogganThis film travels the globe to tell the true stories of devoted fans of the Harlequin Romance novel and reveals their longing for true romance in their lives. (86 mins.)2:50 p.m. Sunday, Alabama Power Auditorium

HOLY ROLLERS: THE TRUE STORY OF CARD-COUNTING CHRISTIANSDirector: Bryan StorkelOne of the largest card-counting teams in the U.S. just happens to be made up of a group of Christians who pool their money to play high-stakes blackjack in the belief that if they can take the casinos for tons of money, good will triumph over evil. (94 mins.)12:30 p.m. Saturday, RMTC Cabaret Theatre

IF A TREE FALLS: A STORY OF THE EARTH LIBERATION FRONTDirectors: Marshall Curry and Sam CullmanAn inside look at the radical environmental group known as the Earth Liberation Front. (85 mins.)4 p.m. Sunday, Hill Event Center

KNOCKING GIRLS DOWN(Alabama film)Directors: Michael Letcher and Nick RymerThis film follows Birmingham's Tragic City Rollers, the city's first and only all-female, flat-track roller derby team, through their second season. (50 mins.)8:45 p.m. Saturday, Alabama Power Auditorium

LEAVING SELMA(Alabama film)

Director: CB HackworthAndrew Young produces this film that recounts the events leading up to Bloody Sunday, when police severely beat civil rights demonstrators as they attempted to cross Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge on their march to Montgomery in 1965. Featuring photographs by the late Spider Martin. (90 mins.)10:20 a.m. Saturday, Carver Theatre

LIVE AT PRESERVATION HALL: LOUISIANA FAIRYTALEDirector: Danny ClinchThe famous New Orleans-based Preservation Hall Jazz Band collaborates with the Louisville, Ky., rock band My Morning Jacket in this music documentary. (70 mins.)1:10 p.m. Sunday, Carver TheatreNote: The Preservation Hall Jazz Band will perform on the Outdoor Stage in Sidewalk Central at 7 p.m. Saturday.MAN IN THE GLASS: THE DALE BROWN STORY(Alabama film)Director: Patrick SheehanThis documentary profiles former LSU basketball coach Dale Brown -- human rights activist, showman and once one of the best college basketball coaches in the country. (82 mins.)3 p.m. Sunday, Carver Theatre

PAGE ONE: INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMESDirector: Andrew RossiThis film goes beyond the headlines and inside the newsroom to look at the current state of journalism in America. (88 mins.)6:15 p.m. Sunday, Alabama Theatre

PROJECT NIMDirector: James MarshThrough the aid of archival footage, Academy Award-winning director Marsh ("Man On Wire") retraces the 1970s project in which an infant chimpanzee was raised as human by the New York-based LaFarge family. (93 mins.)5:25 p.m. Saturday, Alabama Theatre

THE PRUITT-IGOE MYTHDirector: Chad FreidrichsThe story of the transformation of an American city in the decades after World War II, as seen through the lens of the Pruitt-Igoe housing development and the St. Louis residents who called it home. (79 mins.)10:30 a.m. Sunday, RMTC Cabaret Theatre

PUPPETDirector: David SollThis history of the art form of puppetry focuses on the inception and execution of an ambitious stage production in New York City. (78 mins.)10:30 a.m. Saturday, Alabama Theatre

THE RECONSTRUCTION OF ASA CARTERDirectors: Marco Ricci and Douglas NewmanThe fascinating story of author Forrest Carter, whose 1976 book "The Education of Little Tree," a memoir about life as a Cherokee orphan, was embraced by critics and beloved by readers -- and later was exposed as a complete fabrication and the work of none other than former George Wallace speech writer and avowed racist Asa Carter. (70 mins.)12:30 p.m. Sunday, Hill Event Center

SOUND IT OUTDirector: Jeanie FinlayFocusing on the owner, employees and customers of the last remaining vinyl record store in the Teesside region of England, this film looks at the current state of the music industry, the vinyl format and the art and purpose of collecting. (75 mins.)7:35 p.m. Saturday, Alabama Theatre Loft

THE TENTSDirector: James BelzerAn inside look at the onset and transformation of New York City's fashion week. (80 mins.)2:10 p.m. Saturday, Alabama Power Auditorium

WHERE SOLDIERS COME FROMDirector: Heather CourtneyThis film follows two recent high school graduates, who, lured by bonuses and delayed deployment, sign up for the National Guard and two years later are shipped off to Afghanistan. (90 mins.)1:15 p.m. Sunday, Alabama Theatre

THE WONDER YEAR

Director: Kenneth PriceThis film follows hip-hop producer 9th Wonder for over the course of a year. (79 mins.)10:15 p.m. Saturday, Alabama Power Auditorium

YOU'VE BEEN TRUMPEDDirector: Anthony BaxterThis documentary chronicles the fight between residents along the northeast coast of Scotland and American billionaire Donald Trump, who has chosen one of Britain's last remaining wilderness areas for his next golf resort. (95 mins.)5 p.m. Saturday, Hill Event Center